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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1895
Page
2
Topeka shoppers are invited to tour the Model Supply Store tomorrow for a wide array of low prices on groceries clothing dry goods hardware and more. The ad promotes budget friendly offers from coffee sugar soap and baking powder to shoes hats linens and kitchenware with numerous item specifics and quantity limits noted.
Largest assortment of glassware in the city with low prices. Mail orders shipped the same day as received for boots shoes clothing hats and caps and related goods. State the price you will pay and shipping details and we handle the rest. One trial order will prove Model Supply is the place to send for goods.
Sir Henry Irving opens his American tour at the Academy of Music in this city with Faust adapted from Goethe. W. G. Wills produced the five scene solo. His Mephistopheles drew praise as Miss Eileen Terry shared honors with Irving in a strong season opening crowd.
Tampa reports the Spanish cruiser San Chez Barcastegui sank after a collision with the Mortera near Havana harbor. Forty six dead including Admiral Delegate Parejo, Captain Ybanez, and officers. most crew saved by Mortera. Divers inspect the Barcastegui hull as mourning spreads in the city.
Dr. Parkhurst, back from Europe, attacks Plattism as worse than Crokerism. He urges New York to crush the boss system root and branch, warns against the excise issue mixing campaigns, and says Tammany’s foe is the Platt spirit allied to boss rule. He criticizes Pratt’s control of Republican primaries and notes laws effective in Berlin and Hamburg may not fit New York.
A large Barnum tent crowd in Chattanooga heard General Granville Dodge preside at a reunion of the Army of the Tennessee. Speakers included General C O Howard, General Joseph Wheeler, and General Willard Warner. Father Sherman praised the veterans, while Colonel Fred Grant could not attend.
A passenger train No 2 on the Wisconsin Central line was stopped at 9 15 last night by a gang of ten to twelve armed men in a swamp three miles west of Waterford Wisconsin. They ditched the engine and baggage car by pulling spikes placed on the track and piled ties ahead. Passengers were terrified by bullets fired through coaches but none were harmed. The robbers detonated twelve sticks of dynamite at the safe with no booty taken. Conductor Whitney and Engineer Binnie reported the gang size and actions.
The fourth national irrigation congress adjourned sine die at Tralingrague New Mexico with Judge J B Emery of Kansas unanimously re-elected as lecturer. Next year’s session will be in Phoenix Arizona with dates set by the national executive committee and local arrangements.
Local store touts low prices and wide selection with guaranteed quality. The list includes flour, sugar, coffee, canned vegetables, dried goods, spices, canned meats, breakfast items, oils, soaps, extracts, and tobacco, all offered at competitive rates to attract customers.
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